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Anonymous User wrote:Got an oral offer from a partner at my V5 summer firm at the end of my SA (more than two weeks ago), although haven't gotten a hard offer letter in the mail. Do I have any reason to be nervous?

Anonymous User wrote:Got an oral offer from a partner at my V5 summer firm at the end of my SA (more than two weeks ago), although haven't gotten a hard offer letter in the mail. Do I have any reason to be nervous?

Yes. Oral offer doesn't really count.

I'd follow-up with the partner or recruiting. This may be the case where they simply forgot to mail out the offer letter now that OCI is in full-swing. I don't think that my firm actually mailed these letters out until a month or so after the initial offer was extended.

Anonymous User wrote:Got an oral offer from a partner at my V5 summer firm at the end of my SA (more than two weeks ago), although haven't gotten a hard offer letter in the mail. Do I have any reason to be nervous?

Yes. Oral offer doesn't really count.

I'd follow-up with the partner or recruiting. This may be the case where they simply forgot to mail out the offer letter now that OCI is in full-swing. I don't think that my firm actually mailed these letters out until a month or so after the initial offer was extended.

Anonymous User wrote:Got an oral offer from a partner at my V5 summer firm at the end of my SA (more than two weeks ago), although haven't gotten a hard offer letter in the mail. Do I have any reason to be nervous?

Yes. Oral offer doesn't really count.

I'd follow-up with the partner or recruiting. This may be the case where they simply forgot to mail out the offer letter now that OCI is in full-swing. I don't think that my firm actually mailed these letters out until a month or so after the initial offer was extended.

I did this today with my firm (with recruiting) and got a scanned offer letter within 2 minutes. I don't know if they ever mailed the letter or not; I've been transient since my SA ended and I'm not sure where it would have been sent.

Anonymous User wrote:Got an oral offer from a partner at my V5 summer firm at the end of my SA (more than two weeks ago), although haven't gotten a hard offer letter in the mail. Do I have any reason to be nervous?

Yes. Oral offer doesn't really count.

I'd follow-up with the partner or recruiting. This may be the case where they simply forgot to mail out the offer letter now that OCI is in full-swing. I don't think that my firm actually mailed these letters out until a month or so after the initial offer was extended.

Lol I was trolling him, and you had to go all straight lace on me.

I wanted to say something to the effect that "oral" most certainly does count, but just couldn't think of something clever enough to say!

Can confirm 8/48 no offers at BB Houston. They had a particular issue where they seem to have made a political choice in their offers after a conflict arose between two summers. A lot of people are worried about the firm's financial strength (particularly in litigation, where they only gave out 12 practice group offers among the 30 who listed it as first choice) and transparency. Many of us will be accepting elsewhere.